Talk:Medicalization and the Female Body

Hi there!

You have picked and interesting topic and seem to be well on the way to having a really great Wiki page for the class. However, I think that there are a few little things here and there that you could improve on. Firstly, your citations and references don't seem to be linked to a reference area at the bottom. At the Wiki help page that was linked in the course content it is explained how to cite your paragraphs and list references at the bottom. Also, some visuals may help with your piece! You can include graphs and photographs, all which are easy to do and listed as well in the Wiki help page given to us. Another area you could improve on is bringing in links in certain topics that could be expanded upon by a different wikipedia page, or give out the link to different websites that could be useful for your page. All of these listed above are formatting features that you could go through at the end and add into your Wiki Page to complete it for a well-rounded piece. Content-wise, I found the introduction a little confusing. You could elaborate on the definition and how that plays in with the female body a little more to delve into the other information in more of a smooth movement.

Hope this helps!

Thank you for your feedback. The previous content seen was very incomplete and at the WIP stage. Hopefully the final ended up being clearer and more interesting with the pictures. :-) Have a great weekend!

You chose a very interesting topic. I would have liked to read more about how medicalization impacts men; it would have been interesting to see a brief comparison between the two. On another note, I liked that you talked about different timelines with medical practice. Perhaps it would be better if you could divide the different timelines with real life examples so that it is easier to read? Furthermore, to make your page stand out and put this topic more into perspective, you could perhaps add images or graphs to clearly explain the topic?

Don’t forget to add your links and references as well!

Thank you for your feedback. I hadn't finished entering content previously but hopefully the final iteration is clearer and more complete. I agree that it would be interesting to do a comparative analysis of how medicalization impacts men (although there wasn't time or scope for that here, unfortunately). I believe that we're starting to see increases in the impacts on men. I think overall it's an important education piece for everyone.

The discussion on medical practice as control on woman's lives was interesting. It harkens back to our units on abortion. It looks like Conrad is one of your main resources and I definitely agree, he is an authority on medicalization! For variety, here are some other resources that may be useful:

Naturalization and medicalization of the female body: social control through reproduction http://socialsciences.scielo.org/pdf/s_icse/v3nse/scs_a06.pdf

Medicalization of female beauty: A content analysis of cosmetic procedures.Medicalization of female beauty: A content analysis of cosmetic procedures. Found this in online UBC Library Archives.

It looks the medicalization of the female body encompasses a few related subtopics from reproduction to motherhood. Would you be interested in expanding on some of these topics for your wiki or in picking one specific aspect of the female body that is medicalized and focus on that?

Finally, some visuals could jazz up your page. For instance, a graph that can go with the stats "As of 2015, about 3% of births in BC are home births; 32.4% of births were attended by a family physician; 51.2% by obstetricians, and 14.1% by midwives (Perinatal Services BC: Giving Birth in BC)." could be a lovely addition.

Thank you so much for your input. I hadn't finished adding content previously but your comments helped to confirm the direction I was moving in. I did include a graph with birthing information on BC. :-) Cheers!